"Well, now that we've solved that problem, let's get in and see what's so special about that computer everyone's talking about", said Zeldron, coming from the back of the group.

Lashowe: "Do you know how many Sith there are on this planet?"
Jolee: "Twelve! No, wait! Thirteen!"
Canderous: "Nice one, old man."
Jolee: "Thank you. It takes effort to be properly irreverent at my age."

Zeldron was right. "The more we wait, the less time we have" was one of Dwain's philosophy... as with others revolving around women.

Dwain unclipped his Lightsabers, and walked to the door. He opened it...

Before his eyes was a large, dim lighted room. In the center was an ancient Rakatan Computer Terminal. But in front of the rusty machine was three cloaked figures. They turned around to face the intruders.

The center one pulled back his hood to reveal the face they had encountered on the Hospital Space Station. Reaper.

"I had not expected you to come this far..." he said in the cold voice.

Zayne was cautious. He knew they were in the presence of evil. Whether it was the minion or the master, it didn't matter for this one alone was enough to kill them. And he himself had two other minions. Obviously, they all had Lightsabers. Zayne slowly grabbed onto his saber hilt and just let the encounter develop, slowly...

"Perhaps now would be a good time to fight," William said as he emerged through the doorwary. "When I couldn't sense your presence anymore I followed you in... guess I was right to do so."

Turning to face Reaper William said, "So your the bothersome thing I sensed repeatedly. I hope you aren't annoying like the other Sith that I've faced, you know, going on and on about the dark side and the power."

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Zeldron glanced at Reaper and said:"So this is the all-mighty Sith Lord everyone's been talking about, huh?! Hmph...doesn't look like much to me. Prepare yourself for battle, Sith!", he said boldly.

Lashowe: "Do you know how many Sith there are on this planet?"
Jolee: "Twelve! No, wait! Thirteen!"
Canderous: "Nice one, old man."
Jolee: "Thank you. It takes effort to be properly irreverent at my age."

"Usually I won't give help unless you truely need it. You can take care of yourself and besides, you became stronger when you dealt with the problem on your own."

William began taking out his dual lightsabers and spoke to Reaper, "I don't like fighting, so lets try not to leap into battle like the Mandalorian would and resolve this with words, though I doubt it to be possible... and no offence Zeldron, but I don't like cocky people."

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William's words reminded Zeldron of a training session he had on Dxun when he was younger. He was battling all sorts of wild beasts and was killing them with relative ease. He was confident after killing a bunch of maalras and despite orders to return to base, he went in search of a zakkeg, a large beast that if killed would bring great honor to a Mandalorian. When he actually faced the zakkeg, his pride and arrogance got the better of him and he was overwhelmed. Luckily, his trainer had come in search of him and saved him from certain death, before scolding him: "Idiot!! What the hell were you doing out there? You almost got yourself killed!! Never get into something you can't handle! NEVER! And don't underestimate your adversary just because he doesn't look like much...that's gonna kill you!". Turning back to the present, Zeldron shook his head and thought:"I am still young...and have much to learn".

He then turned towards William and said:"Well, cocky or not, Sith aren't known to be very open to negotiations and these don't look any different."
((Sorry for the flashback...I felt I needed to add something to Zel's background ))

Lashowe: "Do you know how many Sith there are on this planet?"
Jolee: "Twelve! No, wait! Thirteen!"
Canderous: "Nice one, old man."
Jolee: "Thank you. It takes effort to be properly irreverent at my age."

"Well then what are you, omnipotent or something? Or just simply arrogant since you seem to have Lightsabers or perhaps three, none of the above?" Zayne told William, losing his stance and looking at him dumbfounded when he was interrupted by something Reaper said, and although he didn't heard it very well since he was talking to William, it seemed to be directed to Natalie.

"You know," Zayne said, taking a step forward and grabbing his Lightsaber, throwing it in the air, "This is getting boring. Why don't we-" He continued as the Lightsaber then fell as he grabbed it and igniting it, a calm teal blade illuminating the room, "Take action?"

William used the Force to give him extra speed, surprising one of the robed figures before going through various lightsaber forms. It would only be a matter of time before his opponent became overwhelmed, or let his guard down.

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The remaining Sith immediately jumped at Zayne with his Lightsaber and tried to slash from above. Zayne immediately blocked but was pushed to the ground due to the immense strength of the blow. He curled himself into a ball and then kicked the Sith back to the ground right in the stomach. Seizing the opportunity, Zayne got up and stabbed his Lightsaber in the ground. The same ground in which the Sith was no longer stationed.

He turned around, only to receive a roundhouse kick right in the mouth and Force Pushed against a wall, bleeding from the mouth. Getting up, Zayne spit the blood onto the ground and grinned.

"Without Force Powers, this is going to be tougher," He mumbled, then slumping slowly to the ground as the Sith walked to him.

"Bad mistake buddy," Zayne told him and catching him off guard as he grabbed his blaster and shot him three times in the stomach. The Sith growled in pain as then Zayne rolled to his front and athletically kicked him in the jaw, then taking a stance.

Zeldron watched on at the duel between Dwain and Reaper...he had never seen anything like it. The speed and grace at which they were fighting was amazing. The young Mandalorian was immediately brought back to earth, when one of the other two Sith, distracting his opponent from the battle, turned to face him and Force Pushed him into a wall. The impact with the stone wall was particularly brutal and it was several seconds, before Zeldron could get back up.

When he did get back up, the Sith who pushed him into the wall in the first place, was heading towards him, lightsaber in hand. In a split second, he pulled out his Mandalorian vibrosword and met the Sith's lightsaber, locking weapons with him. Seeing that he could not match the Mandalorian's physical strength, the Sith reverted to dirty tactics and kicked Zeldron in the belly, before hurling him away into a corner with another powerful Force Push.

Lashowe: "Do you know how many Sith there are on this planet?"
Jolee: "Twelve! No, wait! Thirteen!"
Canderous: "Nice one, old man."
Jolee: "Thank you. It takes effort to be properly irreverent at my age."

William continued his barrage of deadly attacks, before turning one of his lightsabers around and hitting the Sith with the hilt. The man stumbled a bit from the impact, but that was all William needed before he sliced him neatly in half.

Life is wasted when you always listen to people. Enjoy life, and live without regret.

(Umm, JK24, there are only three Sith: Reaper and two others and William and Zayne were already fighting them.)

Zayne started exchanging swings between himself and the Sith warrior, gracefully moving around the hilt, knowing every move could be the cause of his death.

"Not bad," Zayne said, pushing his arms up with his Lightsaber hoisted horizontally over his forehead, blocking a swing from the Sith, trying to talk a bit but the Sith remained silent. Zayne sighed, "Guess you aren't the talkative type," He then pushed the Lightsabers upwards with brute strength and spun around, clashing sabers with him on front of their legs, then pushing them backwards and clashing them once again in front of the Sith's chest.

Dwain met his Lightsaber with Reaper's, fighting in Ataru stance. Reaper was quite fast as always when it comes to Melee weapons. The Sith had obviously been trained well, and it was difficult for Dwain to keep up.

While the two of them clashed sabers together, they carefully moved sidewards. Reaper jumped atop of the wide computer terminal, and used the force to throw his Lightsaber at Dwain, which he had just barely managed to block.

Dwain joined Reaper on the Terminal and the duel continued on. Fast attacks and swings were made by the two duelists. Reaper force pushed Dwain against the wall, but Dwain landed his feet on the wall and used the force to launch himself off of the wall, and landed back onto the computer terminal.

Natalie watched the room light up with the duels going on, she slowly stepped back with her Blaster ready.

She aimed at the sith Zayne was fighting, she squeezed the trigger and the shot went flying, the Sith noticed the shot and turned to block, but she guided the shot through... and the sith got hit square in the jaw and dropped to the ground.

Zayne turned his around and saw Natalie with smoke coming from her blaster. He smiled, "Thanks Nat," He then proceeded to spin his saber and invert it vertically, launching the blade onto the ground and stabbing through the Sith's head.

((Jason Skywalker, if you look at my previous post you'll see that I said the Sith Zel was fighting distracted his opponent from battle; I was pretty vague, sorry about that))
During the remainder of the duels, Zeldron had remained unconscious, but finally got up, after Natalie had killed the Sith Zayne was fighting. "Ouch...my head...good thing I've got this helmet on". He was still a little bit shaky and dizzy from the impact with the stone wall. Turning towards his comrades and noticing the dead Sith, he said: "Nice work, guys...only one left, right?".

Lashowe: "Do you know how many Sith there are on this planet?"
Jolee: "Twelve! No, wait! Thirteen!"
Canderous: "Nice one, old man."
Jolee: "Thank you. It takes effort to be properly irreverent at my age."

Dwain saw just in time the bolt of Natalie's deflected Blaster shot disintergrate in mid air. Suddenly, the truth dawned on Dwain.

"Well, well... Natalie has finally awoken..." he thought to himself. The blades sizzled as they clashed and held togther. It was on that very moment, that Dwain used the force to control his Blue shining blade, and flew across Reaper's back... it was more of a graze. But injuring him was all that mattered.

Reaper force pushed Dwain off of the computer, and cast Force Lightning on him.Shock waves filled the fallen warriors body.

"Skilled... you would have made a fine Sith. But you are pathetic, as the rest of you!"

He glared down at the group... most especially at Natalie. "Much potential I sense within you girl. If only you could harness the power of the darkside. You would make a fine apprentice."

"Natalie, don't you dare listen to him. He's a nut case!" Dwain forced himself to think.

"Hey!" Zayne shouted, pointing his ignited Lightsaber at Reaper, "Don't look down on us, just because we don't have the Force or aren't Jedi or Sith or whatever! We'll do the job if needed and either we kill you or die trying!"

He then started walking towards Reaper, "So, which is it gonna be, Sith?"

"I'm with you, Zayne!", said Zeldron. Then he turned towards Reaper and said boldly: "Prepare for battle, Sith!".

Lashowe: "Do you know how many Sith there are on this planet?"
Jolee: "Twelve! No, wait! Thirteen!"
Canderous: "Nice one, old man."
Jolee: "Thank you. It takes effort to be properly irreverent at my age."

unknown to everyone, a figure was watching the confrontation from the shadows. useing the force the figure is able to remain completely hidden and unsensed. thinking to its self " yes. yes, they will do nicely. i will see how this fight ends, then i will make myself known."

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Dwain still eyed on Reaper and the group. Five against one, the ratio seemd good. But Sith are never to be underestimated. But these Sith, like Reaper, seemed awfully different than the ones the Republic ever saw. Sure, the current Sith empire is not yet extinct, but this was a new, or old breed, of the religion.

While still lying on the floor, Dwain reached within his pouch another Flash Bang grenade. He mouthed the words to his allies "close your eyes..."

He set it off, and rolled it towards where Reaper was. The grenade exploded and emmited a blinding light. Then Dwain, using the force to see with his eyes closed, pulled out his blaster and fired it in the direction where Reaper stood.

As the Light cleared, there was no Reaper... literally. He wasn't in sight. "Where the hell did he go?"

Dwain looked up to see Reaper jump through a hole through the ceiling he hadn't noticed before. Reaper glared down at his enemies.

"She will take care of you. I won't spoil her appetite..." then he dashed off. He escaped.

"She?" Dwain repeated. He didn't like the sound of this. He brought himself up, and walked towards the old computer terminal. "How do you turn this thing on?"

After the effects of the flash grenade had disappeared, Zeldron got up to see that Reaper was nowhere in sight. "Cowardly Sith...", he thought to himself. Turning then towards the computer and Dwain, he said:"Is there no place you can put your datapad in that thing? Maybe then it can interface with it...".

Lashowe: "Do you know how many Sith there are on this planet?"
Jolee: "Twelve! No, wait! Thirteen!"
Canderous: "Nice one, old man."
Jolee: "Thank you. It takes effort to be properly irreverent at my age."

"Anyways, let's take care of the terminal," Zayne said, walking over to it where Dwain was also located. Zayne observed it, it looked like nothing more than a simple computer terminal if you put out the part were it was like 25 thousand years old. He touched it a bit and then started to tap on it. No response. Wasn't exactly something to be amazed at.

using a stelth feild generater the figure came from the shadows and snuck up on dwain and then cut the generater off to reveal himself. he is a 6' 3" human male with short spiked up jet black hair and a gotee. he is wearing customized dark jedi master robes.

"marvelous language, isn't it. a pitty you dont understand a single word. allow me to introduce myself. i have gone by many names, most of wich have been forgotten long ago. my most recent title, however was darth ranis.......sith lord. oh but do not be alarmed my friends. i left that life behind many years ago."

ranis pulls a datapad out of his red and black robes and uses it to interface with the computer, then hands it to dwain.

"even the biggest imbicile knows to carry a translator program in this day and age."

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Zayne was startled by the appearance of the newcomer, "Who the hell are you and how the hell did you get here?"

The stranger then introduced himself, claiming to be Darth Ranis, a Sith Lord who had forgotten his ways. Zayne still found this most weird but shook it off. He gazed at the computer terminal. He understood some Rakatan but this was most advanced.

Zeldron was as surprised as Zayne at the appearance of the newcomer, a former Sith Lord, Darth Ruin, he introduced himself. "Hmph, a Sith Lord who renounced his ways?!Seems hard to believe to me...", he thought to himself. Suspicious by nature, Zeldron told the newcomer:"Whatever your motives and intentios are Ranis, I'll be keeping my eye on you...".

Turning then towards the Rakatan computer, he tried to comprehend what the computer was saying and succeded in it, albeit only partially and he was still uncertain. "I think the computer's saying that you can ask it various questions, including who was here before us and I think something about Rakatan genetic material...my Rakatan's a little rusty though...".

Lashowe: "Do you know how many Sith there are on this planet?"
Jolee: "Twelve! No, wait! Thirteen!"
Canderous: "Nice one, old man."
Jolee: "Thank you. It takes effort to be properly irreverent at my age."

(yea, i know the entrance was weak but its all i could think of at the time. it was almoast 2 am.)

"oh calm yourselves! you all look like a bunch of startled wamp rats. as hard as it may be to believe i did indeed cast down my title of sith lord. thoe my reasons are my own and i dont feel you deserve an explanation just yet, however my purpose....... i know little of your travels but much of your goal. revan is indeed a valuable key to saving the republic, and i wish to join your search."

ranis looks around at the doubtful faces, and can see that his words have swayed no one

"i have much to offer"

i'm 100% in love and on fire for God!

THE SECRET TO LIFE, THE UNIVURSE AND EVERYTHING IS............................